THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 2003

SESSION ONE: 8:30 - 9:30 a.m.

1A.  The Economics of Place
Chair: Malcolm B. Russell, Andrews University

1. “Bankers Preferences and the Location of Federal Reserve" Michael R. McAvoy, SUNY College at Oneonta

2. “The Explanation Behind the Tradition: Why most American Women's Colleges are Located in the East." Stephanie O. Crofton, High Point University

THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 2003

SESSION TWO: 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.

2A.  Technology, Debt, and Business Cycles
Chair: Roberto Mazzoleni, Hofstra University

1. “Technology Choice: Cotton Picking Machines or Mechanical Cotton Strippers in Texas" Craig W. Heinicke, Baldwin-Wallace College, Wayne Grove, LeMoyne College

2. “An Evolutionary Analysis of  the American Business Cycle of 1991-2001” Adil H. Mouhammed, University of Illinois at Springfield

3. “Tracing the Cause of Burdensome Debt: The Prime Rate of New York Banks." Mizra Shahjahan, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff

2B.  Innovators, Investors, and Everyday Business
Chair: Harold C. Livesay, Texas A&M University

1. “The Social Background of Nineteenth Century Innovators in the American Iron and Steel Industry" Robert P. Rogers, Ashland University

2. “Sylvanus Holbrook and the Blackstone Canal: The Real Returns to Canal Investment." Jill Dupree, College of Holy Cross

3. “Manufacturers Surely Cannot be Expected to Continue Business: The Dwight Manufacturing Company and Capital Mobility in the 1890s U.S. Textile Industry."  Beth Anne English, College of William and Mary

2C.  Gender and Work
Chair: Michael V. Kennedy, University of Michigan-Flint
 

1. “The Motivation of Female Mill Workers in New England from 1800-1850: Applying the ERG Theory." Kelly M. Kilcrease, Franklin Pierce College

2. “Gendering Recruitment: The Case of Boeing During World War II." Polly Myers, Western Washington University
   
     

THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2003

SESSION THREE: 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

3A.  The Business of Science and Technology
Chair: Larry Malone, Hartwick College

1. “Technological Adaptation in the Iron and Steel Industry:  The Role of Scientific Research Institutions." Roberto Mazzoleni, Hofstra University

2. “John McDonald Had a Firm: Creative Genius, Business Survival, and the Incubation of Vancouver's Technology Community, 1968-1993." Jocelyn Wills, Brooklyn College, CUNY

3B. Exchange Rates and Commodity Prices
Chair: Kenneth Weiher, University of Texas, San Antonio

1. “European Exchange Rate Policy, 1971-1979: The Snake." James M. Jordon-Wagner, Eastern Illinois University

2. “Oil Price Increases as Demand Shocks: A Reconsideration."  Malcolm B. Russell, Andrews University

THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 2003

SESSION FOUR: 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

4A. Government and Business: Relations and  Restraints I
Chair: Allen Burris, Radford University

1. “J.P. Morgan, Industrial Finance Constraints and the Clayton Anti-Trust Act." Daniel C. Giedeman, Grand Valley State University

2. “Emerging Opportunity Windows: Business-Government Relations as Rent Seeking and/or Collusion in the Military Allocation Decisions of Finland, Sweden and the U.K., 1920-1938." Jari Eloranta, University of Jyvaskyla

3. “Evolutionary Causes and Consequences of Monopoly Power in the Cable Industry." Larry Malone, Hartwick College

4B. Sails and Silks: International Business Ventures
Chair: John Paul Rossi, Pennsylvania State University-Erie
 

1. “Global Trade in "The Days of Sail." Phyllis Whitman Hunter, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

2. “Silk Stockings, Nylons, and Pearl Harbor: A Japanese Commercial Catastrophe on the Eve of War." Edward S. Miller, retired CFO/Independent Historian

4C. American Political Economy: Canals, Trucks, and Unions
Chair: Michael Namorato, University of Mississippi
 

1. “The Business of the Canal: The Economics and Politics of the Carter Administration's Panama Canal Initiative, 1978." Mary C. Swilling, University of Mississippi

2. “Economics, Grievances, Protective-Employee Unionization, and the 1978 Memphis Police and Fire Strikes." Steve Palmer, University of Mississippi

3. “An Opportunity Seized: J&B Services, Inc. and the Deregulation of the Motor Carrier Systems in the 1970's and the 1980's." Toby Bates, University of Mississippi

FRIDAY APRIL 25, 2003

SESSION FIVE  8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

5A. World War I and After: British Industrial Reform and the U.S. Post-War Economy
Chair: Gene Smiley, Marquette University

1. “Why did the British Industrial Reformers of World War I Fail?" James Stitt, High Point University
    

1. “First Impressions Count: President John Kennedy meets British Guianese Premier Cheddi Jagan." Gordon Daniels, Mississippi Valley State University, Robert Waters, Attorney at Law, Johnson, Eklund, Nicholson, and Peterson

2. “Economic Status and Environmental Justice in the Emerald City: Urban Sustainability and the Marginalized in Seattle." D. Gene Pace, University of Kentucky

5C. The Business of Art
Chair: Wade Shilts, Luther College

1. “Window Displays: Looking at Contemporary Art in Mid-Nineteenth Century Paris." Veronique Chagnon-Burke, Christie's Graduate Program in Art History

2. “The Rhetoric of Persuasion: Art, Advertising, and Influencing the Public." John Angeline, Parsons School of Design

FRIDAY APRIL 25, 2003

SESSION SIX  9:15 a.m. -10:45 a.m.

6A. The New Deal and After
Chair: Michael Namorato, University of Mississippi

1. “The Foundation for the Infinitely Greater Prosperity which is within Our Capacity For Tomorrow: Leon Keyserling, the AFL-CIO, and the Fate of Full Employment Economics, 1953-1975." Edmund F. Wehrle, Eastern Illinois University

2. “The New Deal at War: Alphabet Agencies' Expenditure Patterns, 1940-1945." Jason Taylor, University of Virginia, Fred Bateman, University of Georgia

3. “Rexford Tugwell, the New Deal Brains Truster and Advisor." Michael Namorato, University of Mississippi, David Whitten, Auburn University

6B. The Civil War: From Sectionalism to Sequestration
Chair: Thomas Wermuth, Marist College

1. “Perceptions of the Past: The Merging of Economic Analysis, Cultural Identity and Literature." Karen Lyn Moyer, Hartwick College

2. “A 'Fair Setoff' for Silver Spoons" The History of the Confederate Sequestration Act in West Tennessee, 1861-1862." Harvey Gresham Hudspeth, Mississippi Valley State University

6B. Life and Labor in Early Modern Italy and Revolutionary America
Chair: Gregory Zieren, Austin Peay State University

1. “The Cost of a Man's Life in Sixteenth Century Naples." Antonio Calabria, University of Texas, San Antonio

2. “The Pressures of Performance: Worker Controls and the Increase of Runaways During the American revolution." Michael V. Kennedy, University of Michigan-Flint

FRIDAY APRIL 25, 2003

SESSION SEVEN: 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

7A. Entrepreneurs, Civics, Politics, and Urban Development
Chair: Jocelyn Wills, Brooklyn College, CUNY

1. “The Engineer As Promoter: Richard Boyse Osborne, the Camden and Atlantic City Railroad, and the Creation of Atlantic City." Thomas R. Winpenny, Elizabethtown University

2. “American Presidents as Failures in Business: Case Studies in Entrepreneurship." Joseph W. Ford, Iona College, Arthur J. Hughes, St. Francis College, Charles F., O'Donnell, Iona College

SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 2003

SESSION EIGHT: 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.

8A Government and Business: Relations and

Restraints II
Chair: Harvey Hudspeth, Mississippi Valley State University
 

1. “The 'Chosen Instrument?': Reconsidering the Early Relationship between Pan American Airways and the U.S. Government." Erik Benson, Ouachita Baptist University

2. “Sunsetting the ICC: Is It Really Dead?" Richard D. Stone, Shippensburg University, Michael Landry, Northeastern State University

3. “What on Earth Happened to the Accounting Profession? A History of Accounting Regulatory Prices." Jerome J. DeRidder, Salisbury University

 8B. Work, Life, and Consumption: India, the U.S., and the U.K.
Chair: Thomas Winpenny, Elizabethtown College

1. “'Life Style Marketing in Ancient India." Jayant Sonwalker, University of Indore

2. “I Owe, I Owe, So Maybe I'll Sleep In? Or Absenteeism among Rhode Island Textile Workers in 1894." Brian K. Strow, Western Kentucky State University, Claudia W. Strow Western Kentucky University

3. “Working Class Credit in the U.K., 1925-1960." Sean O'Connell, University of Ulster, Chris Reid, University of Portsmouth

8C. The Labor Question at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1867
Chair: Michael A. Smith, University of South Carolina

1. “'Labor and Technology at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1867." Gregory R. Zieren, Austin Peay State University

2. “Statement of the Pacific Mills Presented tot he Special Jury of the Paris Exposition of 1867: An Analysis from the Laborers' Perspective." Pamela C. Edwards, Murray State University

SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 2003

SESSION NINE: 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

9A. Regulatory Regimes in Health Care, Advertising, and Taxation
Chair: Michael Landry, Northeastern State University

1. “'The Practices of Anesthesia by Nurses in the United States: Legal and Economic Perspectives." Vincent F. Maher, Iona College, Joseph W. Ford, Iona College

2. “Hospital Advertising in the Beginning: Marketplace Dynamics and the Lifting of the Ban." Lauren K. Strach, Andrews University

3. “Life Insurance Taxation: Employer-Owned Equity Split Dollar Life Insurance." Arthus Karlin, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff

9B. Problems of Political economy: Britain, Ireland, Germany, and Mexico
Chair: Nancy Lumpkin, Georgetown College

1. "Inefficient Railways, Insufficient Response: The State of Irish Railways and British Political Economy, 1844-1872." John Grady Powell, Furman University

2. “1957: Ludwig Erhard's Annus Terribilis." Alfred C. Mierzejewskii, University of North Texas

3. “Mexico State's Economic and Political Transition: From Entrepreneurial State to State Entrepreneurs." Jose G. Vargas-Hernandez, Universidad de Guadalajara

9C. Investment Issues: Ireland, Britain, Germany
Chair: Lynne Pierson Doti, Chapman College

1. “'The Impact of Merger Announcements of Stock Prices: the Application of Event Study Analysis to a Historical Issue." Gerhard Kling, University of Tübingen

2. “The Trading of Unlimited Liability bank Shares in Nineteenth Century Ireland: The Bagehot Hypothesis.: John D. Turner, Queen's University of Belfast, Charles R. Hickson, Queen's University of Belfast

3. “Accounting, Engineering, or Advertising? The Language of the Company, Prospectus in Victorian Britain." Wade E. Shilts, Luther College